Otherness and Identity in the Gospel of John 1st Edition Sung Uk Lim 9783030602864 3030602869

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• ISBN 10: 3030602869
• ISBN 13: 9783030602864 
• Author: Sung Uk Lim

In this book, Sung Uk Lim examines the narrative construction of identity and otherness through ongoing interactions between Jesus and the so-called others as represented by the minor characters in the Gospel of John. This study reconfigures the otherness of the minor characters in order to reconstruct the identity of Jesus beyond the exclusive binary of identity and otherness. The recent trends in Johannine scholarship are deeply entrenched in a dialectical framework of inclusion and exclusion, perpetuating positive portrayals of Jesus and negative portrayals of the minor characters. Read in this light, Jesus is portrayed as a superior, omniscient, and omnipotent character, whereas minor characters are depicted as inferior, uncomprehending, and powerless. At the root of such portrayals lies the belief that the Johannine dualistic Weltanschauung warrants such a sharp differentiation between Jesus and the minor characters. Lim argues, to the contrary, that the multiple constructions of otherness deriving from the minor characters make Jesus’ identity vulnerable to a constant process of transformation. Consequently, John’s minor characters actually challenge and destabilize Johannine hierarchical dualism within a both/and framework.

Table contents:

Part 1. Introduction: Why Otherness Matters in Biblical Interpretation
Part 2. Interpretive Frameworks for Otherness and Identity in the Johannine Narrative
Part 3. Reading the Otherness In-Between
Part 4. Reading the Otherness Within
Part 5. Reading the Otherness Without
Part 6. Reading the Otherness Beyond
Part 7. Conclusion: Reconfiguring Otherness, Identity, and Solidarity in Biblical

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